{"id":49360,"date":"2013-01-14T17:14:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T15:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=49360"},"modified":"2013-01-14T17:15:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T15:15:45","slug":"fist-of-the-north-star-kens-rage-2-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/49360-fist-of-the-north-star-kens-rage-2-release-date","title":{"rendered":"Fist of the North Star: Ken\u2019s Rage 2 release date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of beating the hell out of things will be glad to know that the sequel to Fist of the North Star: Ken\u2019s Rage has a release date.<\/p>\n<p>Fist of the North Star: Ken\u2019s Rage 2 will be delivering a knockout punch on 8 February 2013 for Xbox 360 and PS3. Wii U owners will have access to a download-only version of the game on 7 February.<\/p>\n<p>Ken\u2019s Rage 2 follows the story of Ken, a man with seven scars on his chest and the chosen successor of the legendary assassin\u2019s art of Hokuto Shinken \u2013 The Divine Fist of the North Star. Ken has sworn to protect the weak and innocent from the malicious gangs roaming the scorched planet.<\/p>\n<p>The game is a story driven arcade brawler with plenty of over the top violence \u2013 a staple of the manga series from which it was adapted.<\/p>\n<p>The game will feature a Legend Mode (campaign), over 20 playable characters, new moves, a dream mode (which fills the gaps of the original story), and online co-op and versus play.<\/p>\n<p>Also included is a never before visualised playable episode dedicated to Ken\u2019s faithful companions, Bat and Rin.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the trailer for Fist of the North Star: Ken\u2019s Rage 2 below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YVbuQY-aFmU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More upcoming game news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/48852-2013-what-we-want-to-see.html\">2013: what we want to see<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/48514-most-anticipated-games-of-2013.html\">Most anticipated games of 2013<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/48808-games-of-january-2013.html\">Games of January 2013<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/49072-2013-games-you-should-know-about.html\">2013 games you should know about<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brawling brutality comes our way in February<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":49361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,8439,8437,8438,8440,2436,2896],"class_list":["post-49360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-fist-of-the-north-star-2","tag-fist-of-the-north-star-kens-rage-2","tag-kens-rage-2","tag-koei","tag-release-date","tag-tecmo-koei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49382,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49360\/revisions\/49382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}